The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 56
As soon as it was cooked the hare took out the heart and had just finished eating it when the lion, who was tired of waiting, came up.
Who acts: lion · What happens: cook, take out, finish, eat, be, wait · To what, where: ground, heart
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 cooked | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cooked | aux:pass |
| 6 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hare | det |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooked | obj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heart | det |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finished | cc |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | aux |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 finished | advmod |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 finished | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eating | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 came | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lion | det |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tired | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 tired | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tired | cop |
| 25 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lion | amod |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 waiting | mark |
| 27 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 tired | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lion | punct |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eating | advcl |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · passive | ground | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take out | past | the heart | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | ground | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the lion | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wait | gerund | the lion not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | come up | past | the lion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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